This is getting OLD really fast. Too many whackos craving attention or well....I won't go there, lest I get attacked for being one of those "tin foil hat wearers". Why is it always "in full body gear and a helmet, with an assault rifle"??

The most benign explanation is they give the wackos too much attention, and others copycat it - like teen suicides. Although they (media and politicians) know exactly what they are doing, so it really can’t be benign. They WANT these shootings to happen, so they glamorize them, at the very least.

Police found the body of 20-year-old Richard Shoop in a long-term storage area behind a construction site at the Westfield Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, N.J., about 3:20 a.m., Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said. The discovery came just hours after Shoop, wearing all black and a motorcycle helmet, fired six rounds from a Sig Sauer rifle modified to look like an AK-47 in the first floor of the mall, New Jersey’s largest, about 10 minutes before it closed Monday night.

No one was injured in the gunfire. Molinelli said it didn’t appear that Shoop, who fired bullets that hit an elevator, escalator and several store facades, ever intended to hurt anyone in the mall.

“I don’t know as I stand here whether his motive was to injure anyone,” Molinelli said. “I do not believe that Mr. Shop thought he was going to come out of here alive.

Not to cheer random nutjob shooters, but I wouldn’t at all mind the higher-ends of society getting their trees shaken good and hard. It’s always a good thing for the wealthy to be reminded from time to time that for all their money and trendy trappings, they are as equally vulnerable as us. Their froo-froo fashion shops with ‘no guns allowed’ are a target range to anyone with hostile intent.

“Stay tuned for more staged shootings EVERY DAY this week.
I assume well see them.
I assume the shooters will be carrying Rush Limbaughs new book.”

That is funny. Reminds me of an old episode of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” The local cops were trying to pin a murder they’d committed on the town’s only black guy. They left a bottle of Geri Curl and a Marvin Gaye album at the murder scene. :)

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